Questions tagged [multi-monitor]

Encompasses the configuration, usage, and control of additional displays / monitors / screens. Often termed dual-monitor or dual-head (for two monitors), and often in involving external displays. Connection methods include VGA, DVI, HDMI, and DisplayPort. For single displays, use "monitors" instead. For directing a program's graphical output, you may also want the "display" tag.

I'm running Linux Mint 19.1 on my Dell e6530 laptop which has a maximum resolution of 1600x900. I have connected an external monitor capable of 1920x1080 via HDMI and set this monitor as primary with ...

Every so often when my triple monitor arch pc goes to sleep, only 2 turn back on when I move my mouse. I cannot reliably reproduce this problem though, so I have had quite limited oportunity to test ...

When I turn the night light option in Gnome 3.20.2 it only activates in one monitor and it leaves my second one with the normal white balance. This renders the option unusable.
I am currently using ...

I'm trying to use this monitor Acer XB270H, with my Ubuntu laptop, but it is not recognized, appears cropped with incorrect resolution.
Note: I first was using the docking station with the monitor DP ...

I have two monitors (both are Dell u2515); they are connected to the motherboard by a daisy-chain cable, both DP 1.2, but I cannot get both of my monitors to wake up on start.
The mointor connected ...

I have MSI GP62 6QE laptop and LG Flatron W1954s monitor. I want use the monitor as external to right of my laptop so i bought a HDMI to VGA adapter to do it. But the external monitor only displaying ...

I'm using an ultrabook (Dell XPS13 9350) connected to a Razer Core V2, (which works wonderfully!) inside of which is an AMD Vega Frontier Edition (air-cooled). This part of the setup has never given ...

I have a dual monitor setup in Linux Mint Xfce. When I switch workspace on primary display, it does the same on secondary display as well. I know Cinnamon version of Mint has straight forward way of ...

I have two monitors; eDP1: primary (laptop's screen) and HDMI2, the external monitor. What I want to do is to use i3wm such that when I run a script (below), it put some workspaces on eDP1 and some on ...

I am trying to get to work my two monitor in debian9. I try several things and nothing get to work.
I have a new computer with two output, one VGA and the other HDMI. Both have a monitor conected and ...

My laptop runs on Debian 9 and I try to have a dual monitor.
My first monitor use the VGA ports and works well but the second use the HDMI port and displays nothing.
However, the monitor is detected ...

I'm wondering if there is a way to show whether my laptop can support two monitors.
I have a laptop with Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller running on a Lenovo ...

When closing my laptop, it turns off the internal screen, which moves all windows to the second screen. I realise that I could move all windows to a secondary workspace to not have them overlap the ...

I have got two monitors (in a "Join Displays" setup), an NVIDIA 1070 GTX mobile GPU, and GNOME 3 on OpenGL 4.6.
The refresh rate of the laptop's built-in monitor is set to its maximum 120.02 Hz, and ...

I'm running Arch Linux on a laptop. I usually log in to the TTY console and only startx when I need to. I have an HDMI output and would like to use an external monitor. It works fine with xrandr but ...

I have a video card with six mini display port outputs, and was hoping to use MST splitters to get Xorg to extend my desktop across more monitors than outputs on the card. However, when using xrandr ...

I have a dual monitor setup. The problem is that 50% of the time I don't need my second monitor, and as such I will "turn it off" (i.e. press the power button ⏻) which results in the screen going in ...

I'm running a dual monitor display with Cenos7 as the OS and Gnome 3.22.3 as the GUI. Graphics cards is an NVIDIA 1080Ti. I've tried following this post and this post, and still haven't been able to ...

Do I need any drivers or special configuration if I want to use a TripleHead2Go in my Linux machine (Ubuntu 18.04 LTS), or I just need to connect it, and it will just work, and it will be visible as ...

I just installed the latest version of Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia with desktop environment xCinnamon. For the first few hours I was able to maximize windows to fill the entire screen, but out of nowhere ...

I use Ubuntu 18.04, on Dell XPS 15. There is a huge difference in the resolution of my screens, so when I plugged external monitors, either everything was too big on external monitors or everything ...

When I connect a 4k monitor to any video output of my laptop running debian sid, the computer freezes and a fan starts spinning. This only happens if I have gnome running. If I am on a terminal, the ...

I'm using an Acer predator helios 300 to run my deepin 15.5 OS and for some reason I can't get any output through the hdmi port. It comes with integrated graphics and an nvidia gtx 1060. I'm not sure ...

I have configured a panel 1 used on monitor 1 (laptop), and panel 2 for a second monitor (hdmi). When I disconnect the second monitor, panel 2 is used on my laptop. I need it to be panel 1 (which has ...

I have computer with two HDMI outputs and a single Intel Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics card. I am working on a bash script that provisions the system from scratch. What I want is to automatically ...